Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-19

For nearly forty years California and Oregon
have been the only two of the American sister
hood of States whose homes have been far re-
moved from the others. For years the people
of those States were removed from their friends
in the other States by vast stretch of mountain
and desert waste and their most speedy means
of intercourse was by the long and tedious travel
by sea. Thus jointly isolated from the people of
the other States, they have always regarded
themselves as neighbors and friends although
they themselves were separated from each
other by the lotdly range of the Siskiyous.
And now as i'll the completion of this inter
state railroad, the means of convenient inter
course Will be greatly increased, may the feel
ing OF comfy still further be strengthened. The
citizens of Oregon, as am assured the citizens
of California do, welcome every Improvement
which will have q tendency to subServe the
business interests of both states. And the cti-
zens of both States can and do welcome them as
can the people of no other portion of our coun-
try, for the reason that for long years they felt
the need of them by their deprivation. The
early pioneers of Oregon and California, who
were here quarter OF a century ago,
who came to this country by the, tedious
tedious route across the plains and who
for long years have lived in comp srative isola-
tion, rejoice at all such improvements. They
most heartily welcome any and all advances III
the means by which their produce can reach
the market and hence they do, as we all do, re-
joice over the completion of every new avenue
OF commerce which is opened up within sur
State. These avenues should be for the mutual
benefit of those who patroI ize them, and under
wise and Wholesome regulations they can be So
Let us all then join in congratulations upon
this suspicious occas on, which is destined to
mark new area in the history of two con-
Joined States. Let us hope that the enterprise
Just now completed may be advantageous not
only TO the projectors but also to the patrons of
the road. Let us hope that the two sister States
OF the Pacific, now that the mountain wall of
partition has been practically removed, may as
one people move irresistibly forward in all the
laudable pursuits of a higher civilization; that
they may have no other contention but that
which prompts in each TO outdO the other in all
those efforts which tend to expand the wealth
and dignity aud condition of all classes of its
citizens and diffuse among all the iuestimable
blessing OF just and free Government.
sACRAMEHTo's REPRESENTATIVE.
President Davis then introduced Joseph
Stetfens, President Of the Sacramento Board
of Trade, who said in his address
In behalf of the California delegation and the
people OF that great State, il is my honored
pleasure, on this great Interstate occasion to re-
ceive your cordial welcome and accept your
kind hospitality. We come with emotions OF
good viii and gratitude, and with them gladly
respond to your words and acts of friendly and
cordial greetings. To-day the gilded dome OF
our Capitol flashes its suggestive brightness to
the varied lights of your state, with SHINE that
IS ike the aurora of the north. To-day Mount
Shasta greets Mount Hood. The waters of the
sacramento whisper to the waters of the Co
lumola; the magnolia, the orange and the laurel
send their reciprocity greetings of fragrance
and worth 10 the rose the apple and the pine
lhe people of California strike the palms of the
hands OF your people, one and all, brought to-
gethcr in one family il were, bound fast TO-
| gether with bands of iron, representing d com
| P!ete and rapid transit-that grand, Triumphant
accomplishment that marks and binds closely
| together The otherwise separate peoples of our
modern civilization. 1t is with no little State
| pride that we greet you to day.
With all due Difference to other magnificent
| railroad enterprises that are the special trans
poItation features of this new country with ali
due respect for the genius of those whose names
designate their projectors or controllers, we are
| forcibly reminded at this time that this grand
completion IS the successful result of a world
noted enterprise, bora ofa legitimate Sacramento
mercantile life. That life once the very heart
throbb1ngs of the business life of our STATE Capi
tai, first reached ont from that city, up grade
over mountains and across Il continent until il
could point TO the rock where fi!st landed our
Pilgrim fathers; then through valleys, over
rivers ana across deserts until il beckoned the
gull and the West Indies of a Columbus Then.
sir. II turned toward you and by its legitimate
pushing mercantile-boIn effort, made strong by
continued work and experience, kept living bV
the very heart of a Stanford Huntington and
Crocker; made precious, yea sanctifed by
the life-blood and ashes of Hopkins a Croker
and a Montague, to-day in the presence of one
OF Its living pat1iarchs and prophets in this
| beautiful spot of this, your great State stands
this ideal spirit of transportation clothed in the
trlumphal martel of thousand successes.
At this, the triumph of all its victories in the
glory of its success, and while it halts to hail
the magnifcence OF Mount Baker at the north,
1t IS recognized to-day by world as the legiti-
mate natlVe-born characteristic railroad spirit
of the Pacific coast. To-day California halls
and greets Oregon and the great Northwest
Your welcome IS our cheer, and your hospital
ity our obligation. AS the overflow OF the Nile
has ever kept old Egypt young so may this srti-
fetal stream of commerce, outrivaing nat,Ir, 5
proYlsions-ln fact, victory over nature-eyer
rise and eb5 to the development and progress
OF the people OF our two great cOmmonwealths
as long rs time shall last and man moves m
ward toward his GOD.
FRANK PINLEY's SPEECH.
The President then Introduced Frank "
Pixley, who, in the course of his remarks
said:
stand here tonight to congratulate you upon
the achievement of one of the great peaca
trlumphS. II IS one that, more than any other.
ought TO be esteemed by California and Oregon
and her people, because, next TO the union OF
the great transcOutinental road the Union and
Central Pacific, luaugurating the first ;Ianscon-
tinental line that united Us with our Eastern
friends the consummation of tn 5 achievement
is of almost equal importance and to us more
! interesting fact. The Governor OF your com
monwealth, in graceful and beautiful language,
has referred to the fact that the two great en-
plre states here upon the margin of the Pacific
| have been separated by this great chain of the
| Siskiyou. With our fair valleys to the south
ward and you, with your Rogue River valley
and your Willamette stretching far away 10 the
north, have yet been to each an unknown and
ununlted people. 1t is true, ladies and gentle
men, that we of California know less OF you
of Oregon, less of your social tastes less Of Your
political agitation, less of the matters that in
/ terest you, than We know of any other State in
/ the American Union.
Tonight we have united these great highways
OF travel so that you people of this little coun-
try village OF the mountains find yourselves from
tonight, henceforth and forever members of the
great family Of civilization-the great family of
nations. These two railways united constitute
the longest retch of railroad that is under the
management of single ownership and under
the control Of a single corporation. They unite
I two of the most beautiful countries on our con
tnent. l have been through your valley of the
Willamette. have to-day for the first time seen
your beautiful valley of the Rogue river am
, conyersant with our outsprcad valleys that
stretch down through the Sacramento and San
; Joaquin. By this road you will take these pal
ace cars, with your wives and little ones avoid
ing the tempes.s, the storms aud dangers of the
ocean that beat your rock bound coast, and YOU
vii 20 down in the night in peace and safety.
from these beautiful valleys to your respective
destinstions-whether upon the Columbia or
down TO the city of New Orleans, where this
road ultimately ends. The approaching dark
, ness admonishes me that must close
AN oREGoNIAN WELCOME,